I've been admiring the work of Frank, Rodney, Kalypso and many others for a while and I finally bought my wifea couple of monolights for Christmas and these are our first attempts at lighting. I know I have a lot to learn but I felt good aboutthese andthought I'd share.

Frank, thanks for the comments. My wife and I have been looking at your site trying to get some ideas. We also enjoy watching your videos, it gives us a lot of insight on how to start.

Zak,

First off, thanks for the comments. Secondly, a monolight is basically a strobe and power pack all in one. The ones I have (most are the same) have a built in slave that will cause them to fire off once your flash goes off. There is also a PC cable if your camera has a PC terminal. I bought some relatively inexpensive ones just to get started. This link are the ones we have.